This website is a portal to worldwide collections of medieval polyphonic music manuscripts (not including plainchant). The music and the manuscripts date from approx 800 to 1550; detailed descriptions of the mss are provided, along with a database of high-resolution images.

This website, created by Yolanda Plumley and her colleagues at Exeter University, presents an online searchable corpus of late-medieval French lyrics, predominantly drawn from the fourteenth-century song and motet repertory, most of which have been relatively little studied by scholars, both within and outside musicology.

Our digital newsletter Klankbord (the Dutch word for Soundboard) provides information about recent developments in the field of ancient and medieval music, both in the Netherlands and further afield. In addition to introducing current research projects and highlighting forthcoming conferences, symposia and exhibitions, we also give extensive coverage to recently published books and new CDs.

Manuscripts of the West Midlands: A Catalogue of Vernacular Manuscript Books of the English West Midlands, c. 1300-c.1475. Provides detailed descriptions and reference images of some 150 W. Midland MSS.

Manuscripts Online enables you to search a diverse body of online primary resources relating to written and early printed culture in Britain during the period 1000 to 1500. The resources include literary manuscripts, historical documents and early printed books which are located on websites owned by libraries, archives, universities and publishers.

Contains more than 125,000 songs in the Dutch and Flemish language, from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century. For every song the source is indicated where the text and/or melody can be found. In some cases one can click directly to the complete text, or to the music, or to a recording.

The main site for the Parker on the Web application, a co-production of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and the Stanford University Libraries. The site provides free access to lower-resolution images of 560 manuscripts in the Parker Library collection, and browsing by manuscript name and number. Full functionality, including zoom and search, is available with subscription.

A prototype cross-repository digital manuscript portal hosted by Stanford University Libraries. Stanford is engaged in a large repository-level interoperability project, the ongoing results of which will be accessible through this portal. (NB: because this is a prototype, it will be undergoing changes, sometimes radical, between 2011 and 2013).